The Sun. — London, England, 1810-11-15 00:00:00

ct::l o a s I t IS on, our ;Quail at pre• irope° ll held in Tb e all tt ; . .hat " c t cool' of 06 -- . 0m the Lig itiv49 le, and ii of areen` , ho o °' tot it a tioll moe ll `' )nrf ll9l 1 outtte d, oco th ' n in~en tS ~ A line►'t► reuer~ l ' e wfilL W ifo 6ll'S woo' atid fei Ala t lis M ji on the Frill' 'O O ' ti° 11 0 al d • ea °rs to viz! co y. , dtr ' 3P I : 4 gfr i 110 V ;k d Erf 6 ', he r° tiO to "re rioD itij►' 3 ~a to°ip ssi sE Of or ,stiOV NAVAL NEWS. PtYMOUTIIi, Nov. 14.—We state yesterday that ,_ is Majesty' s s hi p N arc i ssus, o f 32, guns, Hon. `'• 4 1 31 . AYLMER, arrived here dismasted in a gale of Ivin d ; she Is as towed in here by his Majesty's ship 4 , 7naz° n: of 36 guns, Capt. PAR K ER, which ship has 4ee sailed for Falmouth ; and the following is the Particulars respetling ti : e ° l l the n i g h t o f t h e 2d i nst. the N arc i ssus an d "ilia gun -brig, together with several of his Ma lestY's ships, a Spanish frigate, and a Spanish man ' nf- War brig, were at anchor in the Bay of Santona, all of which belonged to the squadron under the encri nland of Commodore AluNns, in his Majes '..ry.. snip Areihusa, a n d we re all arrived there -(r t he:purpose of effecting a landing with the Kamen and marines of the loadron, 'to ,take I)(3oaession of the town of Sr. Antonio; and about 12 o'clock it came on to hloW a heavy gale ,of wind, soon increased to a hurricane, when the tPanisli'frigate drove from her anchorage, and came athwart th e hawse of the Narcissus, by which acci dent the toter had her bowsprit carried away, a nd parted one cable; both ships were then in ltarninetit danger, but very so'in after this accident, t a t he Spanish ship was attempting to get clear of the - Narcissus, the sea running high, she swung round and carried away the masts of ,the latter by t he board ; by the tall of -which, we 'egret to s;,.e, lite Surgeon of the Narcissus, together 'with a IViarine belonging to that ship, were killed, and se leral seamen and a boy received much hurt ; the Spanish frigate was then drifting • about, and 'the weather so bad that' it was not possible - t° get the Spanish sailors aloft to trim the sails, mad in consequence she soon after ran foul of a Spanish flan of war brig, mounting 18 guns, laying there, g'l'en both drifted ashore on the rocks, and, inelati cil°lY to relate, both ships went to nieces, and every 'roil in the frigate, except two, togetne,i, with t! - le. bri gs crew, except the Ca;:•tain, perished. No as etistance could be rendered the unto! tuna:e suffeters, laill Quitting to upwards of 600, as boats could not l i ve in such a gale. We understand that soon atter It he above unfortunate event took place, aithougn t he weather had much abated, his Majesty's brig e Viiel, of 54 guns, Lieutenant BATT, parted her t Z 3b les, and d rove as h ore on t h e roc k s i n t h e same a y , ' the crew, we are happy to state, were saved by The great exertions of the boat's crews of his Ma esty's ships lying there. Since writing the above, a report has reached this I lla ve, state(' to have come from good authority, tha t D o ne of his Majesty's ships in the Bay of Santana Xeceived any damige, besides the :Narcissus ; the I"l 3 °rt, t h ere f ore, o f t h e l oss o f the CorlfliC7, it is ' ll °Ped, is without foundation. The rains on Friday night and Saturday have done a deal of damage in this pact of. the County. At Morwelham, a few miles to the north-west of thi s place, the river was overflowed, and several laelds in a state of cultivation were b leatty injured ; several head -of cattle, together with a number 01 deer, were drowned. The stage coach that. set °lr .frorn hence for Exeter, on Saturday morning, astnepset near the latt e r place by the overflowing h adjacent rivers, the passengers, among whom as Captain BIiUTONi of the North Devon Militia, . - st ationed here, and Mr. WHLATLEY, lam:lord of t he Prince George-Inn in the town o! Dock, were 411 s aved by getting on the tops of the hedges, but rema ined in the water upwards of six hours adore an y assi stance could be rendered them, two of the ia u 'ses were drowned, owing to their being entangled ‘ltri a tre e U that had been washed iuto the ro a d ; a cl ae was washed away by the overflowing of . 4 ° River, b ut we h ave not heard of any usher da te being done there. B °lne square pieces of timber were taken up at ref, zance on Sunday, and some things came on sh ore near the Land's End marked Ann, of White .haven. Went Up the Harbour his Majesty's ship Narcissus, to rep a i r the damages she sustained in the ; gale at St• tibtonio. Arrived hi s M a j esty ' s s hi p C uracoa, o f 36 guns, Ca p t ain TOWER, st.lez • c from off Br e st ; and the Lord zo.esuury, oTRIJONELL, tram Southampton. Sailed his Majesty't bhip .N.emen, of 38 guns, Cant C: r.• MICHAEL SEYMOUR, on a cruize ; the ?I ci LO ices VETT, for W ater f or d his Majesty's ship .4rageux; of 74 guns, for Portsmouth ; the Ex- PreSS packet, Buf.LucKz, with Mails for Jamaica 3 and the Adventure packet, TALLET, with Mails for Ne w York. ArriVed a French schooneer privateer, of 14 guns, ~. , ir ea o P l ured by his Miije,ty's ship Curacoa ; a ship from al . * • il . nte Video, wi t h a cargo of hides and tallow, ,:. no . . a nd t o L ondon, 7 1 days_passage i also arrived an ~.. Am' i-' . . ~., lean ship with a cargo-; Ti ue and a ship from gyek C, With a cargo of timbwr. 4 The Alphea schooner takes convoy toPurtstnenth, and will sail to-morrow. Arrived a store-ship from the Westward. PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 14—Came in this day his Majesty's ship challenger, from the West Indies, and Rattler, Cyane, and Sarpedon, from a cruize, and the Gannet, from Guernsey. The Jemima, -, anti Fly, GREGOLLY, from London;' Vine, HARDY, from Sunderland; and the Mary, PROCHER, from Dublin for London. FALIIO€77'H, Nov. 12. Arrived his Majesty's ship ..dmazon, Captain JOYCE, frotu the coast of Spain; and Haughty gun-brig from a cruize. HARWTCH, Nov. t 4.—Arrived his Majesty's ship Aggressor, with the American ship Eliza and Mary, from Salem, to a port in - Denmark, detained as a prize ; her cargo consists of rum, cotton, and in digo. Sailed the Lady lVepean packet with two Mails for Auholt ; the one of the 9th, and the other of the 13th inst. Also sailed the Lor l d Nelson packet with a Mail for Heligoland. YARMOUTH, Nov. 140--Count GOTTORP landed this morning from the Tartarus, and was condu&ed to the Angel Inn, in this place. It is swosed that he will shortly set uff for town. DEAL, Nov. 14.—Arrived his Majesty's ship Tiveed, after a long crttize in the North Sea. Salle,: the Adriatic from Senegal fur the River. DREADFUL ACCIDENT. PArscEy,,Nov. 10.—I have this moment returned from witnessing the most horrible of scenes. A few days ago, a track boat, from Paisley to Johnstone, was launches!, and daily since it has been filled with parties of pleas re. To-day is a fan - with us, and every lad and lass, wilo could muster eight pence must have a sail. About an hour ago, she landed at the basin, op posite Mr. Barclay's, with nearly one hundred on board (for she is Go feet in length), and as many were on the beach anxious to replace them, and who, JJ in spite of all remonstrances, pressed in before she was cleared of the former load, in consequence of which she upset, and plunged the whole, men, Wo-. men, and children, into the basin, which is seven or eight feet deep of water. The scene to those .who saw it was awful. Num bers, no doubt, were taken up, but numbers' too • have perished. A gentleman told me, he tarried till he saw 40, all corpses to appearance, and I have just now heard that 51 have been dragged out, few:.:. of whom, it is dreAded, will recover. The stirgednS are - doing what they can, and every apartment in ; Mr. Barclay's house contains some unhappy -vialimo , Th,!. neighbouring 'houses have been thrown open.' Every one wears the countenance of dismay, afraid to inquire, lest sorm! relative may have perished. Mr. T. Baker, has lost two of his daughters, and it appears generally understood, that the sufferers amount to from 4U to 50. Our letters ftom Waterford state, that they had experienced for some days paSt the coldest weather: ever remembered, the snow in many parts lying near a foot deep. Great apprehensions were enter tained for the safety of the potatoe crop, the gr ea t er portion of which still remained in the ground. Accounts have been received from Hayti, which state, that an American schooner, having t 7,0n0 dol lars on board for the purchase or coffee at Aux Cayes, was boarded by the boats from Chrisiophe's squa dron. The ruffians baying robbed the vessel, and reordered the whole crew, consisiing of 14 hands, concluded their. atrocities by sinking her. GIBRALTAR, SErr. Lucena the inhabi tants of 16 villa es have risen against the French vartere'd in that i - onntry, and killed, taken, or dis persed the whole of them. Money and warlike.succours have been remitted to the patriots. French detaclunent of the gar rison of Ronda, which a tow days ago ventured to march out, fell into the hands of the peasantry, and was completely routed.--Begettcy Gaz. 9. Several mad dogs have appeared recently at Read ing and Thatchatn, in Berkshire, where they have bitten two coachmen and several children. The Theatres re-opened last night, and were tolerably well attended, cousid'ring the badness of the weather. The, Irdzeel ofFurtune was repre.seu twd at Covent-Garden, and KEXELE peiformed Penrud dock with his usual skill, but was much oppressed with a cold. The grand Ballei,d'ilelion of Perouse was revived with great splendour and beauty ; Mrs. PARKER was well received in Unita, and a Master MORELLI in Champanzee. The Lyceum gave the Clandestine Marriage,* bleb went off with spirit throuthout. NOVERRE, the celebrated Ballet Master some years ago at our °pelt], died at St. Germains on the 18th of List month, in the 82d )ear of his age. Although the late Mr. CRAWSHAW, the wealthy iron-master in North Wales, 1-ft two daughters, nearly the whole of his immense property, to the amount of a million sterling, he has bequeathed •to his nephew, Mr. HALL. , • BOSTON, TUESDAY AFTERNOON', Nc Iv. 13. THE STORNI. The dreadful visitation in this part of the country which we have. to-day the duty of relating to our distant readers, and of recording as matter of refe rence IT those who are, our neighbours, is itself of a nature so impressive, th at we h ave not hi ng more to do to rivet public attention to the subject, than plainly to relate particulars. On Saturday morning last, about seven o'clock, it began to rain at Roston, and continued to do so thronghorit the day. The. wind accompanied the ran impetuously from E. S. E. and gradually in creased in roughness ; from eleven o'clock in the day till six in the evening it blew extremely hard, and from that hour till nine, a perfect hurricane. The consequence of this continued gale for so many hout's in one point was, that the tide in the evening came in with great rapidity, and, rose, half an hour before the expected time of full hood, to a height exceeding by four inches what it is recorded to have attained on any occasion preceding. What is called a good tide ". was expeded; but the consterna tion produced by the rise of the water several feet above its usual level may well b e i mag i ne d to h ave bee'n excessive. Houses which on no occasion whatever before had been invaded by the tide, were Dow, by its overpeering all probable bounds, filled to a great depth with the wales., which rushed into kitchens and cellars, and inundated every apart ment, until it found its level. Whole streets were thus circumstanced; and some were for two 'r three hours inaccessible but to those who had reso lution. enough to wade up to the knees. Witham place, Wormgate, and all th e streetsand houses near to the river, were in the sam e p re di cament; and as it was night (seven o'clock), and rain fell heavily, the situation of the inhabitants was most (list ressing. What was an extraordinary thing was, that the tide, when it had flowed to its highest, did not per ceptibly subside for more than an hour. To those who had any knowledge of the way in which such an elle& could alone be produced, this was a sure prognostic of an extensive calamity—to them it was clear that the sea-banks had broken or were over flowed; and fortunate for the town of Boston (but most miserably unfortunate for the surrounding country) was it, that this thing happened ; for had not the tide found another and less straitened course, but flowed till it had spent itself in its accustomed channel, it would have risen, in all probability, even some feet higher than it did in the town, and have swept almost every thing before it. As it happ.,m ed, the town was saved, and the neighbouring coun try deluged. Frisknoy new sea-Oink is broken by the tide in two or three places ; Leverton new sea bank the same ; of Frir , ston new hank scarcely a 'vestige is lest ; the old bank also in that parish is broken in many i •I ices, as is Boston East old bank, and the banks at Skirbeck Quarter, Wyberton, Frampton, a. , d Fosdyke.—li ivay be well here to ousere, that the new banks are those lately made on the inciosure ol the marshes from the sea, but are not relied upon for the dLf:nce of the country at largo. 'The old sea hanks, unhappily for the coun 4ry, have proved insufficient in height, as the surge 'passed over them alinost along the whole line ; and this was the cause of the breaches—the overflow , having first scoured away the banks, from the sum mit to the base, on the land side. The situation of the ~cOuntty, in' consequence, frOm Wainfleet almoSt to - Spalding, a distance of 30 m il es , i s s u c h as exceeds our poweis of description. The intelligence of dis tress which we have tor two days hourly had brought in fo us, amazes and almost incap:!citates us from 'our duty of relating what we hear. • . . The foresight of man had not extended to the for mation of a barrier against such a tide as that of. S aturday night.; and therefore the whole extent of the Eastern coast has probably been seriously nffeled by 'it. The calamity has been naturally more severe on the low districts of this county, which with difficulty find an outfall for their drainage ; and the tide hav ing once bruken into them, pm - suas its course irre sistibly for miles. All the fine pastures, the pride of this neighbourhood, have in one night been laid under water, and some ,thousands of sheep. and other cattle have been drowned. The ruin came st,.), rapidly and unexp e ct e dly, that the farmers had no time to save their cattle, had the thing been prac ticable; but in some instances the inhabitants of tarts-houws have had difficulty in saving their own lives; and one insianee is mentioned ro us in which two persons at Fosdyke eeri,bed by the flood, which completely swept away their dwelling-house. At Fistitoft Mr. Smith Jessop (formerly in trade as a grocer at Boston) lost his life in endeavouring to rescue some of his father's sheep. On Saturday night old Mr. Jessop, accidentally looking out of his house, and mistaking the :approaching deluge for a fall of snow on the ground, exclaimed to his son. that care should be takers of some sheep on - his pastures. The deceased immediately went firth, and before he recovered from the astonishment ex cited by the scene, walked through the water; in his way to Ilse sheep, 'into a pit, where' he was drowned, before any assistance could be rendered. The Hotel (Plummer's), at Frieston shore, was for souse hours in danger of being quite washed down ; the great bow-window of the dining-room-, although a considerable . height from . the ground, was . forced from tho building by the water, and carried to the distance of several fieldS; Dead sheep.are seen lying in numbers from every road that is passable. The roads, Iron) Boston to wards the sea and Fosdike Wash are nearly iii)pass able, being horse-belly deep in water, and the corn rnumcation along the sea-banks is cut off by the breaches in theme; but the Court of Sewers is sitting daisy at Boston, is,uing orderS tor the security, of the country. Stacks of corn, farming implements, and articles of household furniture, have been floated •away al most be) and number. The houses of Mr. Keall and Mr. Dickinson, of Wyberton, have been nearly demolished by the flood, and many others much da meged. In Holbeach Marsh, we are . told, the greater part of the estates are three feet under v - sea. ter ; and the town of Holbeach has been much dis tressei by the inundation. Some few farmers are said to have Inst near'v all the stock upon their lands. Greit difficulty will be experienced in supporting such cattle ;is may not have perished on the inundated farms, all the ache:, ponds, and wells in min)/ parishes being filled with salt-water, w.l - Icli it will Jake some tittle to get rid of. The appearance of the country from the Cop Boston steeple is melancholy in the extreme. At the seventh mile-stone towards Spalding, the water runs ove; the road; and the country looks likb We'are assured that, from the hour of three on Friday morning last, till five, it hghtened as vividly and repeatedly as is common in the season when we most loOk for such phenomena. The flashes were aiteniively observed by the toasters of two vessels lying in Skirbeck Quarter. On Saturday evening Capt. Massarn, of the Jason accompanied by a man and a boy, went down by lb% low road towards Wyberton, with a view of gelling On board the vessel and giving assistance to ,Capt. Barclay. The gale blowing extremely hat], the party by some means lost their road. Finding this to be the case, they resolved to return and make for the . sea b::nk, but, in this retrograde moven - it-A.4. were soon met by the tide, which in the course of a felr minute 3 quite surrounded them, and made thew seek safety on a hill or tumulus in the 'fields. In this situation they all three continued until between two and three o'clock on Sunday morning, When Capt. Massam, thinking it possible that the next tide might rise so as to drown them all, deter. mined upon adventuring sway, with the aid of seam rails which he broke from a fence. In the attempt the boy gut into deep water and was drowhed; with great labour the two others got to a house, Mr. Smith's, in Frampton, where they were kindly treated, and enabled to proceed to their ship. The boy who perished was in the service of Mr. Clarke, merchant, d Skirbeck Quarter. The performance of divine service on Sunday in the parish church of Bu : •on, was prevented by the tide On the preceding eveni ig having compietel.r. flooded the extensive area Rporopriated to pubf worship. The water flown the river, entering chid'j at the western door, and partly at tho . southero, cd vered the whole floor of the church, as fir as 114 chancel ; and in the north aisle, to a considerable depth. The height of the water against the wt stern end of the steeple, was two feet eight inches and a half—fou inches higher than in the year 1807. A Gentleman who accompanied the King of SIVE.* DEN from the Baltic, in the Tartarus, says, that it -is impossible to conceive the delight of the Russians at re yt g . his Majesty depart from Riga for England, as it was known that a party of Bens durrnes was pursuing him from Prussia. His Majesty - quitted Riga under a salute of c t guns. W e are likewise credibly informekl, that the Emperor of Russia sent his Majesty an atfelitionwe farewel letter, with a present of 7000 ducats, which GUSTAVUS declined accepting. • A Correspondent at Oban, under dire of the fl 0t h oh. writes.as follows :—" It is not. a little remark able, and no less to, be lamented, notwithstanding all that has been done by the, munificence of Go vernment, and the praise -worthy exertions of pa triotic individuals, to ameliO7.ate the condition of the lower classes in almost every part of the Highlands, that emigration from thence to America still con tinues. No less than five - vessels, carrying between four and five hundred emigrants; SaileZl this season from the port of Oban, on the west coast. The people were mostly from the islands of Rum, Co lonsay, and Mull*; some of them from the districts of ArdnarnurChan,Strathglass, and the western parts of Perthshire. They were bound to Prince Edward's Island, in the Gnlph of St. Lawrence, and were in duced to go out by a Mr. Robertson, a native of Perthshire, who went to - PrinCeEdward's with Lord Selkirk, some years ago, and - --who hbs since pur chased lands in that island. The same Gentleman has lately gone to Skye, Uist, and Long Island, in guest of more adventurers, to set out early next sea son!' • , A poor washer-woman, who lives in Winter's court,- Black friar's-road, was yesterday morning dis covered by one of her neighbours suspended . id 'her apartment, to all appearance dead, _Upon medical assistance being procured, however, she recovered. On being vestioned as to the. cause of her cum. initting so rash an ati, she said she had been .robbed by a woman she employed, of two fine shirts, be longing to one,,of her best customers, to whom she was already under pecuniary obligations, and, not having it in her power to stake filfrn good, she cc. tet mined to put a perio3 to her existence. A sub scription was immediately set on foot, and more than ';he value of the shirts was collected and given to her. hXTRAORDINARY CASE OF DROPSY.--.ori the Ali of September, Miss Margaretta Malta Downes, of Fu -court, Churc istoke, Montgomeryshire, satvly under wen , . the fitty.eighth operation of tapping for the droi,sy. The'di;eharge of water at each opera tion has been float fourteen to twenty quarts, though a small made verson. During two of the seventeen years of her long illness, she was obliged to undergo this painful operation regularly at periods of a few days less than a month each; but for the last twelve months (to the astonishment of the fa culty) the accumulation of water has been less ra ' pid, so that she ha's been enabled Co go about three months between each operation. This lady is the eldest daughterof the late Mycidelton Downes, Esq. and sister to the Rev. Ralph Downes, Rector of Pet ton, Shropshire. A few days since, a boy, in the employ of Mr. Brown, a farmer', at Dingey, in Essex, took up blunderbuss, and not knoWing it wiit loaded, pre sented it at his • fellOW servant, -a young• woman about nineteen, and touching the trigger, the piece went off, awl the contents entered her head. She is, however, considered in a fair way of recovery. A few days since, the wife of an industrious firdi erman at Brighton, to whom . she had been married twenty-two years, was safely delivered of the first child !—The mother and her infant are likely to do well..